Category: Mind

Interview: Why a Men’s Mindfulness Retreat? ~ with Evangelos Diavolitsis

Mind
Evangelos Diavolitsis
2025-11-01

With these reflective answers, Evangelos shares the inspiration behind Awakening the Masculine Heart: A Men’s Mindfulness Retreat — a powerful space for men to lay down their armor, reconnect with their hearts, and rediscover what true strength feels like. Drawing from ancient wisdom and modern awareness, he explores why men today need dedicated spaces to […]

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The Myth of Being Good ~ A Wholesome Revolution

Mind
Nishta Matarese
2025-07-29

Face it—we all want to be good people. Or at least better people. We want to do good things – we dream of saving the oceans, being a healer, building a conscious business and leaving this world a better place. Yet, sometimes doing what is good is simply doing what is needed – It’s in […]

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Insight & Imagination: In Conversation with Fidan Huseyni

Mind
Fidan Huseyni
2025-07-05

Every so often, someone comes along whose presence feels like a bridge between the seen and unseen: a solid hand in the practical world, guided by a deep inner compass. Fidan Huseyni is one of those people. As a long-time member of Mandali’s Marketing and Visioning team, she helps shape the way Mandali is experienced […]

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I’ve Been Here Before: Swimming in the Sewage River of Shame

Mind
Erinbell Fanore
2025-06-03

In this raw and deeply honest reflection, Erinbell Fanore invites us into the vulnerable terrain of body shame – a place many of us have visited, often more than once. With strong imagery and poignant self-awareness, she speaks not only to the pain of being caught in toxic self-judgment, but also to the courage it […]

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The Power of Playfulness ~ A New Way of Meeting Life

Mind
Emilio Mercuriali
2025-04-29

There’s a quiet courage in being playful – because to be truly playful means showing up as we are, spontaneously, without hiding behind self-judgment. As children, playfulness was simply the way we met the world. We explored without hesitation, acted without self-consciousness, and learned through wonder rather than fear. Over time, as life shaped us, […]

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Peter Harper ~ Mandali Insight Questionnaire

Mind
Peter Harper
2025-04-11

In stillness, truth speaks. Through our new “Beyond the Surface – an Insight Questionnaire”, we invite the voices of our Mandali community to echo what’s most real. This time, we turn to Peter Harper—The Drunken Monk—whose words remind us that gentleness can be revolutionary, and silence, a doorway.Here, he reflects on life, self, and the […]

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A Method to Integrate Your Meditation Practice into Your Digital Life

Mind
Jonathan Garner
2025-03-07

A confession It’s 2015 and I’m half-way through the meditation retreat that I attend each year in southern France. The sun is beating down outside, and the large group of practitioners are gathered in the relative cool inside the shrine room. Only I’m not with them. Instead, I’m locked in a toilet cubicle and glued […]

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The Path of Love: A Transformative Journey to Your True Self

Mind
Abigail Iquo Isuo Rafia Morgan
2025-01-29

Path of Love is a 7-day immersive experience of deep inner work. It is a transformative journey designed to strip away the masks we wear and reveal the essence of who we truly are. Since its creation 30 years ago, the process has remained fundamentally the same while continually evolving to meet the needs of […]

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Some Ideas on How to Continue after a Retreat

Mind
Steve Cope
2025-01-11

At the end of a retreat I am often asked how to continue a regular meditation practice once we get home. Usually, on a retreat everyone is meditating together at the same time and everything is laid out for us making it easy do the meditation. It can sometimes feel harder not to practise! When […]

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Wholeness in Healing – Meet the Teachers

Mind
Gijs Fermie Mario Santoni
2024-08-05

What happens when two traditions merge into a one-of-a-kind retreat? At Mandali, we value diversity in lineages, teaching styles, and practices, so, when two of our beloved in-house teachers decided to bring their teachings together, it felt like a cosmic cocktail. This collaboration birthed the Wholeness in Healing retreat, blending QiGong, KumNye (Tibetan Yoga), and Breathwork.  […]

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